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A creepy AI-generated woman named ‘Loab’ has spooked several users on the internet, with the corpse-like figure that was created by AI text-to-image generators. Loab was discovered by Supercomposite, a Swedish musician, who says that the strange woman ‘haunts every image she touches’.
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By accidentally creating through a series of negatively weighted prompts, the woman has persisted across numerous image iterations—even when AI is asked to move away from the subject.
A typical art prompt in AI tells the software on what kind of image you want to see, whereas a ‘negatively weighted image prompt’ tells AI to make it “look as distinguished from the prompt as possible”.
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The artist used the technique on the word “Brando” which generated the image of a logo with a city skyline with the word “DIGITAPNTICS”. While the technique was used on the words in the logo, Loab appeared.
The artist “cross-bred” different images with the photos of Loab, and an unnerving character would always appear.
“The concept of ‘Loabness’ became more abstract to me. I would include her in prompts that I knew would almost distort her beyond recognition”, said the artist. “After she disappeared from the image breeding lineage, she would sometimes reappear, later down the line, out of nowhere.”
It’s hard to understand the cause of the phenomenon, but AI models are trained using billions of images—making it complex to understand how they reach a certain result.
The artist says that the lesson from Loab is that image prompting can be used to query the latent space as a custom vector.
